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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is pleased to announce Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms, a compelling convergence of quilts, textiles, paintings, and sculptures.
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On view in the Von Romberg and Emmons Galleries from February 22 through August 30, 2026, the exhibition explores “remixing” as a visual and conceptual strategy, blurring the lines between eras, genres, and cultures.CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
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Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms features works by Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Carla Edwards, Jeffrey Gibson, Tamara Gonzales, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Basil Kincaid, Maia Ruth Lee, Candice Lin, Yassi Mazandi, Adia Millett, Wendy Red Star, Jeffrey Sincich, Shinique Smith, Michael C. Thorpe, and Ben Venom.
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Remixing transforms the familiar into something new. In the recording studio, a music producer layers tracks, shifts tempos, and samples old melodies, creating a fresh soundscape with the echoes of the past. Remixed explores this sonic alchemy through visual art that “remixes” both physical objects and immaterial legacies.
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The exhibition features a diverse roster of artists who do not simply use materials; they listen to them, speaking with, not for, across time and space. Here, materials are conduits for spirit, memory, and history. Basil Kincaid deconstructs and reassembles lived-in fabrics into an ethereal dreamscape, where pink skies and purple mountains host haloed, spiritual entities.
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“In this kind of quilting,” Kincaid explains, “you take elements with memory content from the people you love; put your own energy and love and presence into it; and then your loved ones wrap themselves in it.”
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